ECG/EKG Technician Monitor Patient's Heart

Seeking cardiovascular technician who are able to monitoring patients and assisting doctors with performing angiograms, PCIs, Interventional Radiology procedures, and Electrophysiology procedures. Minimum requirement: Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) or Registered Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Specialist (RCES). This is an example of the many job posting for cardiovascular technician. What do these individuals have in common that cardiac laboratory can accept either credentials? What set them apart to have different credential title? It is easier to discuss the similarities of both RCIS and RCES registrant since they are so similar.

Paramedics are emergency medical technicians more commonly known as EMT’s. EMT’s provide emergency treatment for the ill or injured on a scene and during en route to a medical facility. EMT’s are called upon at all hours of the day or night; typically the first medical specialist that a patient will call upon in an emergency. Paramedics are trained to provide lifesaving pre-hospital care in emergency situations. The range of medical services varies according to the level of training and/or certification.

An EKG technician (also known as an electrocardiogram technician) basically operates hospital equipment known as an electrocardiogram. This machine is attached to a patient via rods known as electrodes. They attach these electrodes to read a patient's heart rhythm and other heart activities. This information is then printed out by the technician and passed on to the physician for analysis and diagnosis. The EKG tech usually works in hospitals and clinics as part of a medical team treating a patient. They continually monitor a patient's heart activities and send the results to physicians. How to become an EKG

An EMT must be able to multi task under pressure, develop good communication skills, and work as a team member to help the patient in need. A year ago, when I played basketball and volleyball for my school, I had to learn how to listen to my other teammates and the people in the bleachers cheering while still focusing on the task at hand. There were times when I had to block the ball from a really good hitter during volleyball and people depended on me to keep the ball on their side. There is also the pressure to make the last point in the game to win. These experiences are similar to those of an EMT because both must think fast in order to get the job done.

The next step is to determine the nature of the emergency, then stabilized the patient's condition, and then administer the right procedures, while en route to the hospital. Treatment for the patients depends on what level of training and certification the EMT has gone through. First responders are only certified to care for a sick or injured person. A basic EMT can give CPR, control any bleeding, treat shock victims, apply bandages, splint fractures, and administer an automatic defibrillation. EMTs are also trained to handle emotionally unstable patients and heart attack, poisoning, and burn patients. EMT-Intermediate are trained to start an IV, or use a manual defibrillator for patients that are going into cardiac arrest. EMT-Paramedic are certified to be able to perform more intensive treatments, while working in close radio contact with the doctor. (Careers In Focus: Medical Technicians 76) EMT-Paramedics are qualified to give intravenous drugs, use EKGs, put in breathing tubes, and use any modern medical technology. (Careers In Emergency Medical Services

EKG is an electrocardiogram, a machine used to check on problems with your electrical activity with your heart. An electrocardiogram machine translates the heart’s electrical pattern into lines that specific professionals can read it. The first EKG was made by Willem Einthoven, a Dutch Java island (now called Indonesia) born citizen. Willem was born the 21st day of May 1860. His father, Jacob Einthoven, was born and educated in Groningen (Netherlands). His father was also

African American male that is seen today for followup post hospital discharge. He is a 48-year-old gentleman with complicated cardiac history as well as neurological history including congestive heart failure. History of strokes 01/2017, possible sick sinus syndrome. He has an implanted pacemaker that was placed in 06/2017, as well as hypertension. He was taken to the Central Hospital on 09/01 with presentation of chest pain, noted to be around his pacemaker site. He identified being in seizure and suddenly felt chest pain with shortness of breath, and was offered nitro, he developed headaches and dyspnea post nitro treatment, of note is that the EKG that was obtained during that process, did not identify any pacemaker spike despite having a

A number of tests would be performed to analyze the extent of damage of the heart. An electrocardiogram would be one of the first tests performed to check the electrical

The Ultrasound technician will facilitate the abdominal ultrasound to produce images of the organs for interpretation.

Last year during my final semester of my senior year, I was blessed to have the opportunity to be an intern in the program of study I wanted to go into. Without any doubt in my mind I chose to intern at the hospital in our town, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Once I chose my intern site, I then got to choose what area I wanted to work in. I chose to intern in the ICU, because I knew I would learn the most in that area. Almost a year later and after getting CNA certified, I got offered a job as a CNA/ Telemetry Monitor Technician in the ICU. Being a Telemetry Monitor Technician, I would watch and observe the heart rates and beats of the patients in the ICU on two computer screens. If something was abnormal in a rhythm, I would make note of the abnormality and notify the nurse.

There are quite a few professions associated with radiology technicians. They are radiologists, physicians, and surgeons. The radiologist is the one who read the images that the radiology technician takes and reports their findings to the physician or surgeon who originally put in the order for the images. Radiology technicians typically only see the radiologist when they have taken incorrect or poorly taken images. The physicians and surgeons are the ones who put in the order for a patient to have images taken before and after an illness or injury.

The heart rate is measured with an electrocardiogram, or ECG. This is a machine that measures the electrical impulses from the patient's heart. This is displayed on a monitor or ECG graph paper. The boxes on the graph paper measure time. Five small boxes are equal to one large box. The large box represents two-tenths of a second.

An echocardiogram, uses sound waves directed at your heart with a transducer held on your chest bounce off your heart and are processed electronically to provide images of your heart. An echocardiogram gram can determine if your heart isn’t pumping normally or at peak capacity. Another option is a CT or MRI, they create images of your heart using signals. 5. How would the patient be treated immediately?

Recording an electrocardiogram or ECG, is a procedure which is performed daily all over the United Kingdom by thousands of healthcare workers and in particular nurses (Jacobson, 2000). The way in which this procedure is performed varies from geographical location to location and occasionally even more so, between staff on the same ward (Amos, 2000). This reason stated by Amos (2000), formed the basis of my decision to choose this topic.

The electrocardiogram (EKG) is a simple test that measures the heart's electrical activity (Donahue p. 35). The most widely used screening test is the exercise EKG, or stress test.